We headed north on Thursday. It’s my first time driving north since making Alabama my home. It’s crazy how attached we get to this world, isn’t it, considering none of it is really home? I’m leaving “home” to go “home” and always the journey tugs and prods at my heart like a good chiropractic adjustment….
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Bloom {Five Minute Friday}
My garden was two hopeful raised beds with some found dirt piled in and spread around. My hopes of starting a few Zinnia plants were dashed when the cheap packet of seeds I got at Walmart contained nothing but air. Yeah. A few tomato plants, extras from a friend, showed up and settled in. Then…
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BeeYoutiful Mineral Makeup Review and Giveaway
If you haven’t tried mineral makeup yet, I’m excited to share one final review with you–because this one includes a giveaway! This post contains affiliate links. Thanks for helping keep the lights on here. In my journey to more natural makeup choices, I made the surprising discovery that there are plenty of awesome, natural alternatives…
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Cowgirl Dirt: A Mineral Makeup Review
{This post contains affiliate links, which helps keep the lights on around here. Thanks for your support!} Ya’ll, I’ve been having so much fun trying out a few natural makeup companies this summer, and I’m excited to share with you my latest find: Cowgirl Dirt Mineral Makeup. I think the trickiest part about switching to…
Continue ReadingBehind the Scenes of the Writing Life (Spread the Love Blog Tour)
Ya’ll. The writing life is tough. The fighting off of lies and self doubt to get the words on the page, yes, but also fitting in writing amongst all The Other Things. I struggle to keep up the blog when I’m focused on a big project, and I might have let it go entirely this month,…
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My Journey to More Natural Makeup
OK, so natural makeup has been a step on my real-foodie, crunchy-mamma journey that I’ve been longing to take for years. Especially after I realized that the expensive ‘natural’ makeup I’d chosen to invest was not actually a very natural product at all. Marketing is such a tricky thing to discern truth through. Then there…
Continue ReadingWhere Two Or More {Why Everyone Needs Discipleship)
It surprised me every time, until I finally figured out what was happening. Long day. Little sleep. A thousand small worries and of course, the usual big ones, my bad attitude chief among them. The only reason I was gathering my Bible and journal and a pen and laptop was because Katie would be calling…
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Embracing Seasons and Teaching From Rest
We played hookey from school last week. Ha. I feel like such a rebel. But the other side of me feels like I’m doing the right thing. Let me explain. Homeschooling went well this year. It’s seriously the highlight of my day. I love that I get to read great books to my kids on…
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When Panic Attacks {Again}
It happened again the other day. A friend asked how Jeremy and I met and I told her we knew each other for 6 years before speaking to each other because “we were both so shy”. “You? Shy? I don’t believe it!” My sweet, new friend laughed in my face. And my heart leaped at a…
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Podcasts For Moms
Does ‘podcasts for moms’ sound incongruous to you? It always did to me. I thought podcasts were for techy nerds, entrepreneurs, and people with long commutes. I am none of the above but I have this new mania…for podcasts. Here’s what I love about them… Podcasts help me clean my house! Podcasts are my new…
Continue ReadingTicket to the Heights {All Is Grace, Part Five}
We were barreling down the road somewhere in the middle of Oklahoma two summers ago when I heard my phone ring. We’d been on the road for 3 weeks and I was friendsick, so despite the noise in the bus, I answered it. Little did I know this conversation would be a turning point on…
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How My Husband Quit Coffee {without a single headache!}
Wanna hear how Jeremy quit coffee? Stories of my husband’s forays into the crunchier side of life seem to be pretty popular around here, so I thought I’d tell ya’ll about how Jeremy recovered from caffeine addiction and adrenal fatigue. {Just so we’re clear on this–it’s not a story as in ‘fairy tale’ – this…
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When Your Art Feels “Ridiculous”
The other day Jesse came up to me with a solemn expression and made this confession: “Mom, sometimes when I’m in the bathroom by myself, I make up little songs but then I say ‘That’s ridiculous!’ to myself. And I stop.” Because this boy lives in a home that values creativity and celebrates all artistic…
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How I Learned to Say “Ya’ll”
It’s time for a little Ebenezer raisin’ here, folks. My soul’s been buckled down, in gear, doing its thing, focused on survival. But the other day I realized it’s been a while since we went dancing. And we have a lot of things to dance about. So pardon me as I recount, for my soul’s…
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The Biggest Blogging Secret
People. I’m about to reveal to you the secret sauce behind my blog…and a host of other blogs you may read that cause you to wonder, “how does she do it?” (Whether my blog actually causes you to marvel is probably debatable. But other blogs! I’m revealing their secret, too!!!) The biggest blogging secret is…
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Oil Pulling: Frequently Asked Questions
And when I say frequently, I mean frequently! Ever since I wrote about how we cured my husband’s cavity with a combination of nutrition and oil pulling, I’ve gotten dozens of questions on the subject. In fact, I get new emails every day about this method of oral health. Although I usually try to answer…
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